Full sets or mixing them up?

[Hypno KK]

What do you like better: using full sets to decorate your house or mixing up pieces? Do do only one of those or do you do both? Why (or why not)?

Personally, I like to mix up pieces from different sets or use incomplete sets. It makes it easier to achieve the look I want. As long as the pieces match, it can look neat and it looks more unique. I love it when I'm visiting dream towns and see houses that do this, it seems more interesting than seeing the same sets over and over. There are sets that I really like and that look nice when used in full, though.

 

[MOON TRIPS]

I like mixing stuff up sometimes...! I've got a weird combo in my main room right now, being lovely furniture and kiddie furniture customized as the fruit colors. I think they work pretty okay together.
the room on the right has a mix up of rococo and princess stuff. the rococo stuff is customized white, of course. using some minimalist minitables in there too, they work well enough. I wish the room were a little more balanced or just had more pink somewhere, but whatever. I like it enough as it is.
oh, and my back room is a combo of ranch, cabin and classic furnitures... might change the classic stuff with exotic furniture instead...

 

[Tokage]

I really like mixing them up and seeing what can work well with what. I agree that as long as things can match pretty decently things end up looking really great.

I don't really have any great examples but what comes to mind is the full-moon vanity and the mermaid set. After I placed that in the same room I never wanted to take it out, it just really went well with the design of the mermaid furniture to me. As for sets, I think the regal set customized blue looks nice with the princess set. There's so many endless options lol.

 

[June]

I had the full modern set displayed at some point but it got really boring after awhile, so I'll probably try mixing them up in my next town. I see a lot of nice HHA homes and houses in dream towns that have nice mixed up sets too. Gives the house a more natural feel to it that way

 

[Kindra]

When I was doing the HHA challenge, I had full sets. I also displayed full sets just for storage purposes -- it's easier to keep all the pieces together rather than have some displayed and some in the closet! But now I'm experimenting with mixing and matching because I'm trying to achieve a certain feel. I think it's a little harder to achieve a really nice looking room with mismatched furniture, but when you pull it off it looks amazing. I have a lot of respect for people who use mismatched furniture!

 

[Feloreena]

I don't use full sets in my rooms, I think it's boring to just make every room a bedroom anyway. I don't necessarily decorate them to look like rooms in a house either, I decorate more on a theme or based on some other inspiration. For that reason I think mixing it up is far better!

 

[Marlene]

I usually use full sets with other full sets or DLC (that's actually on set so they can be mixed in my opinion) that match (For example, I don't put the island items in the same room as the ice). So I get more HHA points and my house looks at least okay. A reason for this is, I guess, I tend to mix up all my stuff and then try hard to mach everything that belongs to a set, series ect. It doesn't annoy me if there's no closet, bed or any other certain funiture a in a room. c: Many people think it's boring to put full sets and series in a room but I for me it's easier to keep track of everything especially if there are more houses

 

[tumut]

I usually use full sets, but I like to change the wallpaper and flooring. For example card series with the sleek wall/floor

- - - Post Merge - - -

Mermaid set looks cool with the cloud flooring and lunar horizon too, and black and red customized exotic series with the autumn wall and floor

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

I like mixing sets as well. Having only one set makes the room look empty IMO.

 

[Skyfall]

I like mixing things up. Nothing in my house matches! Irl life too.

 

[meggiewes]

I like mixing up my sets because it is awesome when you pull off just the right look that you want doing that. Right now, I'm doing full sets to unlock the theme challenges for HHA and getting the rest of the rewards though.

 

[yoyo98]

I'll only mix stuff up in my kitchen. I mostly like to use the same furniture though or furniture that matches.

 

[Omaru]

I love mixing it up, in animal crossing too. I never display every piece of furniture in a set. That's unthinkable. I must arrange furniture in a way that pleases me. Having all this stuff that looks alike in one room is displeasing to the eye. It becomes too overextravagant and unnecessarily lavish. I strive to avoid that by combining furniture from different sets to create a unique space.

Assume one room has every component from one particular set. What is so great about that? Sure, there's the novelty aspect, but how boring.

 

[infinikitten]

Mixing stuff up, for sure. I think using a full set in a room, and nothing else (or not MUCH else) isn't as visually interesting as swapping things out from other sets and seeing how you can make those work for your current theme or whatever "look" you're going for. It definitely takes more creative juice that way but it's worth it in the end.